《梁山伯與祝英臺》和《羅密歐與朱麗葉》之比較--畢業(yè)論文

1、【標題】梁山伯與祝英臺和羅密歐與朱麗葉之比較 【作者】劉恒霞 【關(guān)鍵詞】梁山伯與祝英臺；羅密歐與葉；相同點；不同點 【指導(dǎo)老師】李 雷 【專業(yè)】英語 【正文】. introductiona. introductions to the romeo and julietromeo and juliet fell in deep love with each other at their first sight at the ball. romeo was bewitched by the charm of juliets looks and juliet admired romeo because

2、 of his tender devotion. however, when romeo learned from the nurse that the girl was none other than the daughter of the lord capulet, his heart was troubled. no less troubled on her part was juliet when she heard from her nurse that he who had won her affection was the son of her fathers enemy. be

3、ing hold a foe, romeo could not have access to breathe such rows as lovers used to swear. however, he knew he would be willingly to risk his life to win juliets love. passion lends them power, time means to meet.(chorus ii) 1 they exchanged their faithful vow of love under the moonlight. such love a

4、ffairs between the families in feud certainly lead to greater conflict. romeo and juliet loved each other very much, but their families would certainly be against it. with the help of friar lawrence, they got married very quickly without telling their parents. at the same time, the old lord capulet

5、had been planning for his daughter juliets future. he had chosen a nobleman named paris to be her husband. he supposed that juliet would be proud and glad to accept him as a husband. instead of cheering juliet, this news served but to increase her misery. she perplexed her mother by her plain distre

6、ss. she put forward every plea she could think of to stop or delay the projected marriage. her excuses made her parents exasperated. it seemed to her father that she was putting obstacles in the way of her own good fortune. therefore, he sternly ordered her to be ready by the thursday. in her extrem

7、ity, juliet decided to seek help of the kind friar. she said there was nothing she would not face, even the death by her own hands, rather than give up romeo and wed paris. here the conflict develops greatly.in order to be together with romeo, juliet took the medicine bravely on the eve of the weddi

8、ng day and lost consciousness. romeo got the news of her“death” and felt an extremity of despair. he thought he would have no joy when juliet was dead. therefore, he came to her body, kissed her and then drank the poison. when juliet came to herself, she found her romeo was dead, so she killed herse

9、lf with a dagger. here we see the climax of the conflict. both lovers won their love, but with the sacrifice of their lives. at the same time, the two families turned toward each other and swore friendship and peace.b. introductions to butterfly loversthe narrative, derived from chinese folklore, te

10、lls a story of the lovers liang shanbo and zhu yingtai. the two have been studying together, with zhu yingtai disguised as a boy, her identity unknown to her friend liang shanbo. their period of study together and friendship is a happy one, which ends when zhu yingtai is compelled to return home, an

11、d the couple part at a pavilion, eighteen miles from the city. this forms the exposition of a tripartite sonata form movement. in the central section, the formal development, zhu yingtai now defies her father, who has arranged a marriage for her. liang shanbo decides to visit zhu yingtai and only fi

12、nds she is a girl and about to marry. now liang shanbo realizes the nature of his affection for his former companion. liang shanbo dies of despair, and zhu yingtai, on the way to her wedding, stops at her lovers grave and leaps into it. in the final section of the concerto is the recapitulation, and

13、 the lover reappears in the sky. liang shanbo and zhu yingtai emerge from the tomb as a pair of butterflies, and fly together, never to be parted.the similarities in butterfly lovers and romeo and julieta. the theme of lovefrom two moving love tragedy stories, we are not difficult to see that the co

14、mmon ground is both to pay a tribute to loyal love. although romeos death is due to misunderstanding of juliets death, when juliet sees her lover be dead, then suicides in the name of love by sword; and zhu yingtai sees her lover be dead, then hits to the desolate grave, assimilats butterfly togethe

15、r with liang shanbo in the open tomb. they eulogize the best affection of human. romeo and juliet was written in shakespeares first period(1590-1600) which is one of the most famous love tragedies. the hero and heroine have brief acquaintance, but they fall in love with each other at first sight. th

16、eir affection develop so fast and warmly, however it was restricted by the marriage system, so they had to use their death to testify that they are loyal to love. butterfly lovers is a folklore, which is widely known until now. from schoolfellow to lover, from anti-marriage to metamorphosis, it reve

17、als chastity, the sincere love to be most enviable, to be affected. both heroes and heroines in two plays, who are not fettered by the common marriage system, and loyal to love and themselves. they did not hesitate to receive true love at the cost of life. it expound this kind of subject that all ca

18、n be moved by love, and two stories just like spring breeze and drizzle to moist readers heart. no matter romeo and juliet and butterfly lovers, love is the most worth treasuring in the life. they are typical representative, which are oppose to shackles and fetters in the feudal society. it is a pit

19、y that the feudalism fettered people, which become an obstacle to ponder everything. although they are in different countries, there is the same way of feeling and expressing to love. because love is the most frailest and noblest part in the human nature. to describe love tragedy, shakespeare does n

20、ot need much flourish diction that only needs us to obtain flavor by heart. should say that these two pairs of youths are so brave, so fearless, and their spirit makes us admire. their sincere love is such earth-shacking, while to love loyally; they just struggle with the feudalism stubbornly. hatre

21、d is always influenced by love. loves strength is infinitely great, which controls the entire world. because love influences heaven, earth, even all the world. although fine thing is so brief, it is actually profound meaning. therefore, we should appreciate these two plays not only from surface but

22、also do some researches inside. the theme in these two works which is complain and struggle with feudal society, in the fact it means that new things will represent old things, the feudal shackles will die. individual strength is limited, but publics is infinite. there are different understandings t

23、o love, however it is identical to the people and the entire world, which love is brave and sincere. love composes the wonderful music in the world. leading characters death change the new ideas in the two love tragedies that is love can surpass everything, including death. no matter in shakespeares

24、 work or in chineses eyes, everyone is longing for it. b. the story plots the plots are very similar in these two works: both the leading characters in dignity households have conflict with each other in long period. there is duke in western and supernumerary official in china; both heroines are com

25、pelled by parents to marry someone who they do not love, but it is“the gate works as household is right” in the mortal eyes; there are same plots of running away from marriage, the same ending of dying with lovers death. butterfly lovers has folklores characteristics of plots, the characters image a

26、nd subject, which appears pure, simple and rich fantasy. its basic plots can be conclude like this:“going to school in disguise”,“swearing to be brothers in a pavilion”,“being classmates for three years”,“saying good-bye”,“a sudden change of fortune”,“death of liang shanbo”,“dying of love and the me

27、tamorphosis”. from the development of these serial of plots, we can see that people have the ingenuity in creating this story. yet romeo and juliets plots are montague and capulet, two hostile households, which have struggled long period. one day, romeo accompanies with his friends to a masquerade b

28、all at capulets palace. at the ball, he meets juliet, a dance, some playful dialogue and a kiss, and they are irrevocably in love. then they get married through the lawrence secretly. however, influenced by conflict, romeo killed juliets cousin, and was suffered exile for this. in addition, juliets

29、mother forces her to marry paris who is a young aristocrat. juliet has no way, to take the poison to pretend to be dead in lawrences help. when romeo learns this news, suicides beside tomb. after juliet comes to herself, she kills herself with a dragger. according to the development of above plots,

30、we can see that though two pairs of leading characters are under the shackles and oppressed by feudal ethics, both they have the rebellious spirit. yet they have different degrees in rebellion as their different sex, with the different social classes, different time and place. however, there is a su

31、re point that the oppression, which the woman suffers, is more than man, because the feudal society is indeed controlled by mans power. the so-called pressure is much bigger and the counter-resistance is mush stronger. yet we can feel clearly that feminine revolt is much more intensive than man from

32、 the comparison above is. it gives prominence to express the significance of anti-feudal ethics and shackles.the differences in butterfly lovers and romeo and juliet as the different development and values of society, china and western culture has distinctions. through comparison between butterfly l

33、overs and romeo and juliet, we can find there are huge differences between china and west. a. different characters in butterfly lovers and romeo and juliet both romeo and juliet are overflowing with enthusiasm. frankly, we can see the special characteristics of bravery and fearlessness in order to p

34、ursue happiness and love on westerner from them. when they meet in the dance party first time, the handsome hero and beautiful heroine fall in love with each other at first sight. they do not conceal favorable impression in the innermost to each other. though romeo learns juliets identity afterward,

35、 he still does not change his affection and steal into feud house in order to see juliet in midnight. for love, he can do all things, including renouncing the family surname and eliminating the feud between two households through practical action, until suicide in name of love at last. juliet is rig

36、id to love which is not inferior to him. when knows romeo is enemys son, she signs:“my only love sprung from my only hat!too early seen unknown, and known too late!prodigious birth of love it is to me,that i must love a loathed enemy.”2although there is much difficulty on the love road, she still go

37、es forward bravely without giving up, even says in the most difficult time:if that thy bent of love be honourable,thy purpose marriage, sent me word to-morrow,by one that ill procure to come to thee,where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;and all my fortunes at thy foot ill lay,and follow the

38、e my lord throughout the world.3no matter what pressure they face to, they persist in loving each other. when conflict among love, familys prestige and social moral standard, they always choose the former. because they think it is justified perfectly to pursue individual happiness in their opinion.

39、liang and zhu is better behaved by comparing with them. they observe societys behavior standard carefully, even if rebellion behavior is fleet in the twinkle, which is deficient luminous pot of personality. liang shanbo is born honest and dull, who expects he can glorify family through study by hear

40、t one day. it is clear that he is lacking of observing competence and sensitivity to the life, as he does not know zhu yingtai is female even though he has lived together with her three years. when he knows that zhu yingtai will wed soon, he is depressed to die. he still would not like to strive for

41、 love by his effort even if he learns zhu will marry. we can see he is conservative and laking of passion. zhu yingtai is beautiful, intelligent and lovely. it is a pioneering undertaking to go to school in disguise. however, she scrupulously abides by feudal moral conformity so that dare not to tra

42、nsgress. when she goes to school, she swears to god with a piece of red cloth:“there right under a peony and witnessed by everyone, zhu yingtai buried the red cloth and made her vow,“i hereby swear by the red cloth. if i were to misconduct and ruin my familys reputation, in three years this red clot

43、h would be charred; if i am correct in behavior and remain as clean as ice, in three years this red cloth would be as new as it is now.”4 obviously, the family prestige and individual reputation is the most important to her. it is not hard to understand why she does not tell liang shanbo her identit

44、y even if she loves him in three years school life. even in the farewell at the end, she still does not show her sex. between the personality and social standard, they choose the latter. so romeo and juliet display the strong personality to pursue true love and against feudal society, yet liang and

45、zhu show their identity with moral standard and behavior in feudal society.b. different love types in butterfly lovers and romeo and juliet romeo and juliet manifest shakespeares artistic style and creative thought. in the play, love is no reasonable. romeo and juliet fall in love with each other at

46、 first sight in the dance party, and they are intense and fiery. they pay no heed to how deep the hate is between their households, and how stubborn in publics opinion, and they open their heart to tell affection each other rapidly. they love crazily and frankly as if volcanic eruption spurt out. th

47、is kind of way to express love is that humanism reflects in art creation. in order to cast off“asceticism” and“feudal ethics”, the newly emerging bourgeoisie pursue the“emancipate of personality” and the“free love”. however passed thousands of years, the two youths are more veiled and infatuated on

48、the expression to love in the chinese folklore butterfly lovers, which spread, by oral and literary mens revision. zhu yingtai dresses as a man to study in school, and falls in love with liang shanbo silently, yet she is too shy to show her love to him directly. she loves him so deeply that she give

49、s hints to liang shanbo. she compares herself with goose in the lake and the couple worshiping on bended knees in front of bodhisattva repeatedly to imply she is the ninth sister. this is the concrete way to show love by thousands years in the feudal society. this folklore is born in the song dynast

50、y, which was precisely peak of feudal society stage in china. confucianism has monopolized in culture when experienced the qin, song, sui and tang dynasties. this is just the feudal ethics to forbid showing love by themselves in public, which should be mild with expression by eyes and behavior, othe

51、rwise you should endure the bitter lovesickness. once both sides understand each others feelings, they elope to get their love mostly. so liang shanbo has never thought zhu yingtai is a beautiful woman who lived with him three years day and night, when zhu yingtai gives hints to him on the way to go

52、 home. neither of them is wrong. it is inevitable way to show love in the feudal society. this is just why their love is a pity to us. c. different endings in butterfly lovers and romeo and juliet although the leading characters die for love in butterfly lovers, the ending is a actual beautiful scen

53、e which is full of sunshine, flowers in bright day. liang and zhu dance in the flower shrubs. metamorphosis is a sad and beautiful ending. however, romeo has a finally look in a hurry, then dies of poison resolutely; and when juliet wakes up to find romeos dead body, firmly suicides by dagger. their

54、 blood dyes the gloomy graveyard red. compare with butterfly lovers, romeo and juliet are more solemn and stirring. the former has a consolatory ending with emblematic reunion, yet the latter is a pure end of tragedy love story. the identical subject, the different endings, make them had a particula

55、r culture character between two nationalities, each showing its excellence. 1. romantic death in china and heavy death in western both leading characters regard lover as a inalienable part in their life, therefore die for hopelessness when they see their beloved have been dead. in butterfly lovers,

56、the scene is unforgettable and distressed when zhu yingtai accuses the feudal ethics in front of grave. moved by zhu yingtais sorrow, the wind, rain, thunder and lightning start together suddenly. later the tomb open, and then zhu yingtai jumps into the tomb trippingly. there is a beautiful rainbow

57、in the high sky after the tomb close up, liang and zhu change into beautiful butterflies flying on the flower shrubs. the death is not only solemn and stirring but beautiful full of the romantic color. actually, it is the most important feature. we can see this kind of ending everywhere in other chi

58、nese folklores. such as cowherd and weaving girl, after cowherd and weaving girl separate from each other by queen with the milky way. to ones surprise, a group of swallows fly into sky to build bridge for them. about“good man will get paid” in chinese culture is the consequence of the beautiful dea

59、th, it is concrete manifestation that people pursue the afterlife. just because chinese do not hope the beautiful love die away in romantic way. in romeo and juliet, there is no romanticism to say slightly as the two youth die eventually what is more burdensome and practical. on this point, shakespeare deals with leading characters and other peoples death like this on the ot